Off Topic Bullsh*t Thread Volume X.IV

[Krandall]

To another good one.

[socalrappy700]

Took out the "Re:" 



Damn newbies

[Flynbyu]

Today in history...

Oct 16 1793

Deposed French queen Joséphe Jeanne Marie Antoinette sits in an open cart, enduring three hours of public ridicule as she is slowly driven around the streets of Paris. Finally, she is taken to the guillotine. Before she loses her head, Antoinette tells the crowd: "Farewell, my children, forever. I go to your Father."

Oct 16 1968



American athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos perform a raised-fist Black Power salute during the 200-meter dash medals ceremony at the Mexico City Olympics. Despite being two of the fastest men on Earth (Smith won the gold and Carlos the bronze), the pair are promptly kicked off the U.S. team for their political statement.

Oct 16 1977

In a very special episode of All in the Family, a rapist holds Edith at knifepoint and pays a compliment on her perfume (Lemon Fresh Pledge). Luckily, Edith manages to fend off the home invader before he can rape her.

Oct 16 1991

George Hennard crashes his pickup truck through the window of Luby's Cafeteria in Killeen, Texas. Then he hops out and begins shooting the patrons with a Glock 17 semiauto and a Ruger P89. Before ultimately killing himself next to the restaurant's bathrooms, Hennard manages to kill 23 people and wound 19 others.

Oct 16 1992

The Dutchess of York, Sarah Ferguson, files a $1.4M suit against French tabloids for running topless photos of her taken on the French Riviera, including some of Texas millionaire John Bryan sucking her toes. Fergie went on to appear in advertisements for Weight Watchers.

Oct 16 1996

84 are killed and more than 180 injured in Guatemala City when 47,000 soccer fans attempt to squeeze into 36,000 seats at Mateo Flores Stadium. It is the worst tragedy in soccer history.

Birthdays today...
1396 - William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk, English soldier (d. 1450)
1430 - King James II of Scotland (d. 1460)
1483 - Gasparo Contarini, Italian diplomat and cardinal (d. 1542)
1535 - Niwa Nagahide, Japanese warlord (d. 1585)
1663 - Prince Eugene of Savoy, French-born Austrian general (d. 1736)
1710 - Andreas Hadik, Austro-Hungarian general (d. 1790)
1714 - Giovanni Arduino, Italian geologist (d. 1795)
1726 - Daniel Chodowiecki, Polish painter (d. 1801)
1751 - Frederika Louisa of Hesse-Darmstadt, Queen of Prussia (d. 1805)
1752 - Johann Gottfried Eichhorn, German theologian (d. 1827)
1754 - Morgan Lewis, Governor of New York (1804-07) (d. 1844)
1758 - Noah Webster, American lexicographer (d. 1843)
1762 - Paul Hamilton, Governor of South Carolina (1804-06) and U.S. Secretary of Navy (1809-12) (d. 1816)
1789 - William Burton, Governor of Delaware (1859-63) (d. 1866)
1795 - William Buell Sprague, American clergyman and author (d. 1876)
1802 - Isaac Murphy, Governor of Arkansas (1864-68) (d. 1882)
1806 - William Pitt Fessenden, U.S. Secretary of Treasury (1864-65) (d. 1869)
1815 - Francis Lubbock, Governor of Texas (d. 1905)
1819 - Austin F. Pike, American politician from New Hampshire (d. 1886)
1840 - Kuroda Kiyotaka, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1900)
1841 - Prince Hirobumi Ito, Japanese governor of Korea (d. 1909)
1854 - Oscar Wilde, Irish writer (d. 1900)
1854 - Karl Kautsky, Marxist theoretician (d. 1938)
1855 - Samedbey Mehmandarov, Russian general (d. 1931)
1861 - J. B. Bury, Irish historian (d. 1927)
1863 - Austen Chamberlain, English statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1937)
1878 - Maxey Long, American athlete (d. 1959)
1883 - Vasiliki Maliaros, Greek actress (d. 1973)
1884 - Rembrandt Bugatti, Italian sculptor (d. 1916)
1886 - David Ben-Gurion, first Prime Minister of Israel (d. 1973)
1888 - Eugene O'Neill, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1953)
1888 - Paul Popenoe, American activist (d. 1979)
1890 - Michael Collins, Irish patriot (d. 1922)
1890 - Maria Goretti, Italian saint (d. 1902)
1890 - Paul Strand, American photographer (d. 1975)
1897 - Louis de Cazenave, French supercentenarian (d. 2008)
1898 - William O. Douglas, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1980)
1900 - Edward Ardizzone, artist and illustrator (d. 1979)
1900 - Primo Conti, Italian painter (d. 1988)
1900 - Goose Goslin, American baseball player (d. 1971 )
1903 - Cecile de Brunhoff, French storyteller (d. 2003)
1906 - León Klimovsky, Argentine film director (d. 1996)
1908 - Enver Hoxha, Albanian dictator (d. 1985)
1914 - Mohammed Zahir Shah, King of Afghanistan (d. 2007)
1916 - George Turner, Australian author (d. 1997)
1917 - Alice Pearce, American actress (d. 1966)
1918 - Louis Althusser, French Marxist philosopher (d. 1990)
1919 - Kathleen Winsor, American writer (d. 2003)
1922 - Max Bygraves, English singer/songwriter
1922 - Leon Sullivan, American civil rights leader and pastor (d. 2001)
1923 - Bert Kaempfert, German orchestra leader and songwriter (d. 1980)
1923 - Linda Darnell, American film actress (d. 1965)
1925 - Angela Lansbury, English-born actress
1927 - Günter Grass, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate
1928 - Mary Daly, American feminist
1928 - Ann Morgan Guilbert, American actress
1929 - Fernanda Montenegro, Brazilian actress
1930 - Carmen Sevilla, Spanish actress
1931 - Charles Colson, American Watergate conspirator
1931 - Rosa Rosal, Filipino actress and humanitarian
1932 - John Grant, British politician (d. 2000)
1932 - Henry Lewis, American musician and conductor (d. 1996)
1934 - Peter Ashdown, British racing driver
1936 - Andrei Chikatilo, Russian serial killer (d. 1994)
1936 - Akira Machida, Japanese judge
1936 - Peter Bowles, English actor
1937 - Tom Monaghan, founder of Dominos pizza
1938 - Nico (born Christa Päffgen; singer-songwriter, fashion model, actress) (d. 1988)
1938 - Carl Gunter Jr, Louisiana State Representative (d. 1999)
1940 - Barry Corbin, American actor
1940 - Dave DeBusschere, American basketball player (d. 2003)
1941 - Tim McCarver, baseball player and commentator
1943 - Fred Turner, Canadian bass player (Bachman-Turner Overdrive)
1946 - Suzanne Somers, American actress
1947 - Terry Griffiths, Welsh snooker player
1947 - Bob Weir, American musician (Grateful Dead)
1947 - David Zucker, American film director
1948 - Leo Mazzone, American baseball coach
1948 - Hema Malini, Indian Actress
1952 - Boogie Mosson, American musician (P Funk)
1952 - Ron Taylor, American actor (d. 2002)
1953 - Paulo Roberto Falcão, Brazilian footballer
1953 - Tony Carey, American-born rock keyboardist, producer (Rainbow, Planet P Project)
1954 - Stephen Mellor, American actor
1956 - Johnny Chavis, American football coach
1958 - Tim Robbins, American actor, director, and writer
1958 - Eleftheria Arvanitaki, Greek singer
1959 - Gary Kemp, British musician and actor
1959 - Erkki-Sven Tüür, Estonian composer
1959 - Brian Harper, baseball player
1960 - Bob Mould, American musician
1961 - Randy Vasquez, American actor
1961 - Marc Levy, French novelist
1962 - Flea, Australian musician (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
1962 - Manute Bol, Sudanese-born basketball player for the NBA
1962 - Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Russian baritone
1965 - Steve Lamacq, British journalist and disc jockey
1967 - Davina McCall, British television presenter
1968 - Randall Batinkoff, American actor
1968 - Elsa Zylberstein, French actress
1969 - Roy Hargrove, American jazz trumpeter
1969 - Terri J. Vaughn, American actress
1969 - Wendy Wilson, American pop singer (Wilson Phillips)
1969 - Takao Ōmori, Japanese professional wrestler
1970 - Mehmet Scholl, German footballer
1970 - Kazuyuki Fujita, Japanese professional wrestler and mixed martial arts fighter
1971 - Chad Gray, American singer
1972 - Tomas Lindberg, Swedish musician (At the Gates)
1972 - Darius Kasparaitis, Russian Super League player
1972 - Kordell Stewart, American football player
1973 - Peter Polaco, American professional wrestler
1973 - David Unsworth, English professional footballer
1974 - Paul Kariya, Canadian hockey player
1974 - Deo Grech, Maltese television presenter, songwriter
1975 - Kellie Martin, American actress
1975 - Brynjar Gunnarsson, Icelandic footballer
1975 - Jacques Kallis, South African cricketer
1976 - Ryan Fitzgerald, Australian football (AFL) player and media personality
1977 - John Mayer, American musician
1978 - Ethan Luck, American musician (The O.C. Supertones, Demon Hunter, Relient K)
1979 - Erin Brown, American B-movie actress, model, filmmaker, former softcore erotic actress, and musician
1980 - Sue Bird, American basketball player
1980 - Jeremy Jackson, American actor
1980 - Timana Tahu, Australian Rugby League player
1981 - Caterina Scorsone, Canadian actress
1981 - Anthony Reyes, American baseball player
1981 - Martin Halle, Danish footballer
1982 - Vincy Chan, Hong Kong singer
1982 - Frédéric Michalak, French rugby player
1984 - Trevor Blumas, Canadian actor
1984 - Melissa Lauren, French pornographic actress
1984 - Shayne Ward, UK singer, winner of The X Factor, series 2005
1985 - Casey Stoner, Australian motorcycle racer and 2007 MotoGP World Champion
1986 - Craig Pickering, British sprinter
1988 - Zoltán Stieber, Hungarian footballer
1990 - Luke Allen, British Musician

Famous deaths...
1355 - Louis, King of Sicily, felled by the Black Death
1553 - Lucas Cranach the Elder, German painter (b. 1472)
1555 - Hugh Latimer, English Protestant (martyred)
1555 - Nicholas Ridley, English Protestant (martyred)
1591 - Pope Gregory XIV (b. 1535)
1594 - William Cardinal Allen, English Catholic cardinal (b. 1532)
1621 - Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Dutch composer (b. 1562)
1628 - François de Malherbe, French poet and critic (b. 1555)
1649 - Isaac van Ostade, Dutch painter (b. 1621)
1655 - Joseph Solomon Delmedigo, Italian physician, mathematician, and music theorist (b. 1591)
1680 - Raimondo Montecuccoli, Italian-Austrian general (b. 1608 or 1609)
1750 - Sylvius Leopold Weiss, German composer and lutenist (b. 1687)
1755 - Saint Gerard Majella, Catholic saint (b. 1725)
1781 - Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke, British naval officer (b. 1705)
1791 - Grigori Alexandrovich Potemkin, Russian general and statesman (b. 1739)
1793 - Marie Antoinette, Queen of France (executed) (b. 1755)
1793 - John Hunter, eminent doctor and philosopher (b. 1728
1796 - Victor Amadeus III of Savoy (b. 1726)
1810 - Nachman of Breslov, founder of Breslov Hasidut (b. 1772)
1822 - Eva Marie Veigel, Austrian ballet dancer (b. 1724)
1865 - Andrés Bello, Venezuelan poet, lawmaker, philosopher, and sociologist (b. 1781)
1877 - Theodore Barrière, French dramatist (b. 1823)
1888 - John Wentworth, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1815)
1893 - Patrice MacMahon, duc de Magenta, President of France (b. 1808)
1909 - Jakub Bart-Ćišinski, Sorbian writer (b. 1856)
1937 - Jean de Brunhoff, French writer (b. 1899)
1946 - Nuremberg trial executions of the Main Trial:
          Hans Frank, German war criminal (b. 1900)
          Wilhelm Frick, German war criminal (b. 1877)
          Alfred Jodl, German military officer (b. 1890)
          Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Austrian SS officer (b. 1903)
          Wilhelm Keitel, German military officer (b. 1882)
          Joachim von Ribbentrop, German politician (b. 1893)
          Alfred Rosenberg, Nazi ideologist (b. 1893)
          Fritz Sauckel, German war criminal (b. 1894)
          Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Austrian Nazi leader (b. 1892)
         Julius Streicher, German propagandist (b. 1887)
1956 - Jules Rimet, president of FIFA (b. 1873)
1959 - George Marshall, United States Secretary of State, Nobel laureate (b. 1880)
1962 - Gaston Bachelard, French philosopher and poet (b. 1884)
1966 - George O'Hara, American actor (b. 1899)
1968 - Ellis Kinder, baseball player (b. 1914)
1972 - Hale Boggs, U.S. Congressman from Louisiana (b. 1914)
1972 - Leo G. Carroll, English actor (b. 1892)
1973 - Gene Krupa, American jazz drummer (b. 1909)
1974 - Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavatar, noted Carnatic musician (b. 1895)
1978 - Dan Dailey, American actor (b. 1913)
1979 - Johan Borgen, Norwegian author (b. 1903)
1981 - Moshe Dayan, Israeli general (b. 1915)
1982 - Mario del Monaco, Italian tenor (b. 1915)
1983 - Jakov Gotovac, Croatian composer (b. 1895)
1983 - Kelso, American racehorse (b. 1957)
1986 - Arthur Grumiaux, Belgian violinist (b. 1921)
1989 - Cornel Wilde, American actor (b. 1915)
1990 - Jorge Bolet, Cuban-American classical pianist (b. 1914)
1990 - Art Blakey, American jazz drummer (b. 1919)
1992 - Shirley Booth, American actress (b. 1898)
1994 - Raúl Juliá, Puerto Rican actor (b. 1940)
1996 - Eric Malpass, English novelist (b. 1910)
1996 - Jason Bernard, American actor (b. 1938)
1997 - James Michener, American writer (b. 1907)
1997 - Audra Lindley, American actress (b. 1918)
1998 - Jon Postel, American Internet pioneer (b. 1943)
1999 - Jean Shepherd, American writer and actor (b. 1921)
2000 - Mel Carnahan, American politician (b. 1934)
2002 - Angela Dawson, American murder victim
2003 - Avni Arbas, Turkish artist (b. 1919)
2003 - Stu Hart, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1915)
2003 - László Papp, Hungarian boxer (b. 1926)
2004 - Pierre Salinger, John F. Kennedy's White House Press Secretary (b. 1925)
2005 - "Len" Dresslar, American singer and voice actor (b. 1925)
2005 - Eugene "Porky" Lee, American child actor (b. 1933)
2005 - David Reilly, American singer (GERD Lives Underwater) (b. 1971)
2006 - Valentín Paniagua Corazao, Ex President of Peru (b. 1936)
2006 - Ross Davidson, British actor (b. 1949)
2006 - Tommy Johnson, American tubist (b. 1935)
2006 - Lister Sinclair, Canadian broadcaster and playwright (b. 1921)
2007 - Deborah Kerr, Scottish actress (b. 1921)
2007 - Toše Proeski, Macedonian music star (b. 1981)
2007 - Barbara West, Second to last living Titanic survivor.

Holidays and observances...
Boss's Day in the United States
Pope John Paul II Day in Poland
World Food Day

Have a great Thursday.

~Brian

[Colorado700R]

Morning Gents 

[Krandall]

Mornin Aaron



Oct 16 1996

84 are killed and more than 180 injured in Guatemala City when 47,000 soccer fans attempt to squeeze into 36,000 seats at Mateo Flores Stadium. It is the worst tragedy in soccer history.

freakin soccer hippies.

[BRAD]

whats happening guys?

[NaturalRaptor]

Dam I am hungry, bustin out for lunch. See ya in a few!  :grin_nod:

[BRAD]

later man have a good one

[Colorado700R]

Dam I am hungry, bustin out for lunch. See ya in a few!  :grin_nod:

All have a burrito 

"And a chinchilla" 

[Krandall]

Not much, hows it goin w/ you b-rad

[BRAD]

ah its going man. i gotta head back to class today at 2. then back to work in the library till 11 tonight after that

[Flynbyu]

Dam I am hungry, bustin out for lunch. See ya in a few!  :grin_nod:

All have a burrito 

"And a chinchilla" 

"....with NO guacamole.....and two tacos."

"He thinks I'm Mexican."

"You're not Mexican?"




One of my FAVORITE movies!!!!!!

~Brian

[Krandall]

you been sharpening up those camera skillz?  

[BRAD]

you been sharpening up those camera skillz?  

yeah i have got good at snappin pics. i just cant turn the damn camera sounds off

[Flynbyu]

Time for lunch.

Later gang.

~Brian